Why does anyone waste their time discussing 3D modelled crap that would never work. Budding bike designers: Build a prototype and test, test, test before you get clever on a 3D package. A three year old’s understanding of engineering would also help.

To the writer of the following: anonymous said…“Why does anyone waste their time discussing 3D modeled crap that would never work. Budding bike designers: Build a prototype and test, test, test before you get clever on a 3D package. A three year old’s understanding of engineering would also help.”

A three year old’s understanding of engineering would also inform you that “getting clever on a 3D package” would allow you to prototype and test in an environment that is cost and time conserving. A program like Solidworks and tools like CosMos let you build, model and test under real world conditions, not to mention having complete drawing ready to go to the manufacturer! I don’t know about the rest of you, but building a bike out of any material that is designed to be as light as possible is not something you just jump into. It is expensive and stupid. Who would spend $6000 on the materials needed to build the above bike and break it because your design was slightly off, when you could have learned your mistake for free by building a model like he did!! You have a lot to learn about engineering my friend! But you don’t have to listen to me, I’m just a three year old!